摘要：Introduction The constant improvement of university graduate courses is a work instigated by the Ecuadorian Higher Education. These include training and development processes, not only of learning, but also for research, innovation, development, transfer and others, harmoniously coordinated into an appropriate teacher-education model at this level. The aim of this work is to detail the role of the teacher who teaches in tertiary education, by conducting a study, with a qualitative approach, during the period April to August 2015. The population consisted of the regulations and regulatory documents to be considered in university education. Logical and practical, and inductive. and analytical-synthetic methods were used. Results The teacher is conceived as a promoter of reflective analysis, instigator of changes, activator of the search for knowledge, trigger the search for knowledge, stimulator of scientific discussion, hypothesis generator, faced with a group of students that thinks, creates, transforms, organises, and structures knowledge in an increasingly pluralistic and diverse, in a personal and dynamic and contextual system. Conclusions Permanent and comprehensive training of university teachers is fundamental to student training and the transformation of society. It is based on these acquisition of language skills, communication, critical, ethical and knowledge of a foreign language and information and communications technologies, enabling them to integrate the basic functions of the university, all guided by research. They must be holders of values and human qualities that contribute to the scope of good living for the Ecuadorian population, the domain discipline, professional and research, in a context where the intercultural dialogue of knowledge, unity in multiplicity, respect for diversity and harmonious co-existence with nature, constitute component elements of tertiary education.
关键词：Higher education ; Health sciences ; Third level ; Teacher training ; Ecuador
